"Prompt engineers" are to art what Guitar Hero players are to music.
I've noticed an interesting trend among some acquaintances where it's apparent that they've begun outsourcing their interpersonal communication, ranging from business chats to casual texts or messages on platforms like Telegram or WhatsApp. The sudden and dramatic shift in their conversational style, along with out-of-character comments on subjects such as music albums or video games. This becomes even stranger considering that those people are part of my real-life social circles. It sparks curiosity about the direction in which our technology-driven world is progressing, will we reach a point where our phones come equipped with AI-powered digital personas? Imagine, an 'AIphone' that handles all your calls, messages, and communication tasks for you.
The person who calls you to schedule an appointment may sound articulate and intelligent, while the individual you physically meet might not match that impressive conversational persona. It's a future where digital 'personas' might be the ones engaging with each other, while their human counterparts retreat into the backdrop.
Visualize a future where participation in passionate discussions, like those on StarWars movies in Reddit comments, becomes an arduous task that gets outsourced to an AI named Jarvis. The user might just prompt: "Jarvis, spend the next 14 hours on this thread and respond to anyone who criticizes the reboot. Use whatever tactics necessary, even if it seems disingenuous. If it's possible to find any compromising information, don't hesitate to use it. Take aim at appearances, dismiss opinions based on geography", and then lean back and catch up on some sleep.
In such a scenario, the persona of "friendly argument" becomes just another task assigned to an AI assistant, subtly altering the dynamics of human interaction.
Evolution of modern 'feminism':
Women exist.
Women need protection from men.
Women are equal to men.
Women are men.
Women are better than men.
Men are women.
Men are better women than women.
Women don't exist.
Here is a good talk from Elizabeth Binks, the developer of ETH-XMR Atomic Swaps in Monerotopia
A few years from now, everyone will be obsessed with spatial content like spatial TikTok or spatial Instagram.
Rewriting history, a start.
https://video.nostr.build/f106c0f4f2619073fdb8b211aa42ff8a79c66e794d660058470d1e13aa3e995d.mp4
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.
Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.
Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.
Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.
We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.
We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.
We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.
Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.
Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.
For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.
The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.
Onward.
A true Bitcoiner reads the cypherpunk manifesto.
Telegram's Wallet bot is now integrated into the application menu and fully custodial. Its custodial wallet also supports collectibles (NFTs) like Telegram Usernames and virtual phone numbers.
This update gives access to the TON ecosystem to 800 million Telegram users (excluding U.S.)
Bitcoin and Monero are still unaffected, but salty news for some degens in another smart contract blockchain.
U.S government: We may or may not have alien bod-
Mexican Government: Here are the fucking bodies. Right here
The biggest reason people will want to run personal LLM in the future is that they despise censorship as much as we loathe ads. OpenAI uses the same "be evil" mantra as Google.
Some good debates about Vitalik & Chainalysis' paper on "Privacy and Regulatory Compliance."
Ethereals are already bullish in this paper. How about you?
Any ELI5 of the history of explodingheads and why they moved away from Lemmy?
BREAKING: MetaMask announces crypto-to-fiat cashout.
You can withdraw to PayPal or your bank account.
One step closer to KYC your Ethereum wallets.